"We were threatened by locals to leave the beach," Alshelh said. "And if we didn't they were going to call the police. They weren't happy with us being there."

Burkini ban

More than 30 beaches, most of them along France's southeastern coastline, imposed a ban on the burkini earlier this summer, in the wake of the Bastille Day terror attack, in which 86 people were killed.

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Authorities in Nice argued that outfits "ostentatiously showing religious beliefs may be interpreted as affiliation with religious fundamentalism," and that the ban was justified because people in the region were still traumatized by the attack.